Muilinn Mhiabhaig (Meavag Mill) is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 February 2007. Prayer meeting house.
Muilinn Mhiabhaig (Meavag Mill)
- WRENN ID
- cold-postern-yew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 February 2007
- Type
- Prayer meeting house
- OS grid reference
- NG 151 964
- Coordinates
- 57.86683, -6.80466
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Muilinn Mhiabhaig, also known as Meavag Mill, is a former corn mill built around 1860. It is a tall, single-storey building with a rectangular plan and a piend roof. The mill has been converted into a Free Presbyterian prayer meeting house around 1950. It is situated in the rugged landscape of the Bays of Harris and still retains some remnants of milling machinery, including top hopper windows that hint at its industrial past, as well as an interesting interior featuring pews and a pulpit.
The exterior is constructed from roughly squared, coursed, and snecked rubble, with some remaining harling, large squared quoins, and stone lintels and cills. The entrance elevation faces southeast and includes a broad, two-leaf boarded timber door in the right bay, with windows in the centre and right bays. The other elevations are blank. There is a partially infilled wheel pit and remnants of wheel gearing on the southwest side.
The top hopper type timber windows feature a 9-pane glazing pattern, with the lower row consisting of three tall vertically aligned panes. The roof is made of corrugated material.
Inside, the church has a simple layout with boarded dadoes, fixed timber pews on either side of a central aisle, a timber pulpit, a sounding board, and gas brackets.
Local climate
Muilinn Mhiabhaig (Meavag Mill) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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